make blender behave like maya (ish)

rooster · Oct 2009

I'm starting a new thread for this because I'm not going to be asking any qs, this is really just to share where I get up to with making blender more comfortable coming from maya. If anyone has more ideas, throw em in

To use this, you'll need to grab AutoHotkey, its a hotkey scripting prog http://www.autohotkey.com/

here's where I'm up to, I nicked the first part from a guy on blenderartists.org from here http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-105516.html

edit: ok, biggest issue so far is typing names of stuff

which is interfered with from the mapping. I need to figure out a 'disable remaps' toggle for that situation.
edit2: ok, mapped that to tab
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#IfWinActive, Blender ahk_class GHOST_WindowClass
!MButton::Send, {SHIFTDOWN}{MButton Down}
!MButton Up::Send, {SHIFTUP}{MButton Up}
!LButton::Send, {MButton Down}
!LButton Up::Send, {MButton Up}
!RButton::Send, {CTRLDOWN}{MButton Down}
!RButton Up::Send, {CTRLUP}{MButton Up}

;rooster's bits- just my preference

;use tab to toggle the script. I remap tab functions later
TAB::Suspend

;swap click buttons
MButton::Rbutton
RButton::MButton

;component selection mode to A
a::^TAB

;edit/object mode toggle to S
s::TAB

;selectall/deselectall d
d::a

;extrude to \
\::e

;frameselection
f::NumpadDot

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the most important bit is the part I nicked, it sets the navigation to maya controls
the options I then set in blender are:
turntable view rotation (don't go all funky angles on me)
drag immediately (dont have to confirm *some transform clicks. still have to on others)

Some of the default hotkeys are pretty nice though. x is delete, ctrl+shift has some nice mesh edit options, ctrl gridsnaps. Going to look at some good welding hotkeys next

BeatKitano · Oct 2009

First thank you !

Second: damn you ctrl+tab !!

Zwebbie · Oct 2009

There's an option called Select With in the options under Input, where you can choose to select with the left mouse button. I've heard some people say that it does something wrong, but I haven't noticed it myself. Worth a try, anyway, because I'd imagine that just swapping buttons is nasty when you have to navigate menus.

Also, with mode toggle to S, how do you scale? Q is right next to it and does nothing, I'd map stuff to that

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rooster · Oct 2009

I click on the scale manipulator or do the gesture thing if its all axes.. I can't seem to manage to get the script to do ' ctrl alt G' otherwise I'd put those on w e and r. You can see that I tried here, but they don't activate the gizmo, they just go straight to translation

PS here's how my script currently looks after some more modelling

#IfWinActive, Blender ahk_class GHOST_WindowClass
!MButton::Send, {SHIFTDOWN}{MButton Down}
!MButton Up::Send, {SHIFTUP}{MButton Up}
!LButton::Send, {MButton Down}
!LButton Up::Send, {MButton Up}
!RButton::Send, {CTRLDOWN}{MButton Down}
!RButton Up::Send, {CTRLUP}{MButton Up}

;rooster's bits

;swap click buttons
MButton::Rbutton
RButton::MButton

;translation modes
w::^!G
e::^!R
r::^!S

;area select closer to hand
c::b

;snap controls to v
v::Send,{ShiftDown}{s}
v Up::Send,{ShiftUp}

;component selection mode to A
a::^TAB

;edit/object mode toggle to S
s::TAB

;selectall/deselectall d
d::a

;extrude
\::e

;frameselection
f::NumpadDot

TAB::Suspend

rooster · Oct 2009

Just as an update to this thread, I'm working on a little floating panel of buttons for freuqently used actions (like a scripted maya shelf kinda)
I'll link to it as soon as my effing web host gets my site back online

cos I ain't pressin no ctrl e alt 2 to make sum dang edges soft

renderhjs · Oct 2009

whoa floating panel I hear?
I might be interested in this as well even though I don't work with maya. Do you script it with python or is there another way of adding custom panels with script- buttons?

rooster · Oct 2009

same thing as above, autohotkey

. it has quite extensive gui options, so you can make a windows panel that stays above blender and sends input to it when you click buttons. You'll probably be able to do something much more fancy than me with it hehe

the one drawback is that the panel needs to be positioned above the viewport you're working in. I usually have one big persp window so its not difficult, but if you have loads of panels all over it might be tricky

renderhjs · Oct 2009

dang,- if it were real floaters I would totally follow you

guess I will check that another day

rooster · Oct 2009

here we go: http://www.redprodukt.com/bkup/BlendPanel_v0_1.ahk
it should be clear from the comments what does what, any Qs just ask
the tabs aren't complete, need to add some buttons as I find I need them

like I say, the panel needs to be over the viewport window which you're using

Michael Knubben · Oct 2009

Blender has a tool shelf now, though, and the entire interface is scriptable through python, so can't someone with scripting experience do whatever they like?

eld · Oct 2009

that's how it should be in 2.5, all in python.

rooster · Oct 2009

what do you mean when you say 'now' pea, 2.5 is still beta and imo not fully battle ready
ps, I have copy and pasting experience, not scripting experience.. so I'm not going to muck about with python interfaces

make blender behave like maya (ish)

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